Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with extensive QA expertise to lead and enhance our QA team for a large-scale, high-complexity game project. This role is vital for ensuring QA teams are synchronized, efficient, and delivering high-quality outcomes that align with the evolving demands of AAA development. Responsibilities include overseeing daily QA team operations, collaborating with QA leads to define milestone criteria and coverage expectations, establishing KPIs for vendor performance, and partnering with stakeholders to design optimal staffing and operating models. The role also involves providing independent analysis of vendor performance, test coverage, and risks, translating budget constraints into QA coverage plans, recommending test strategy solutions, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure proactive vendor teams. Contribution to retrospectives and process improvements for both internal and external QA workflows is also expected.
Must Have:
- Lead and optimize QA team for game project
- Ensure alignment with project goals and quality standards
- Define milestone entrance/exit and test acceptance criteria
- Establish and track high-level KPIs for vendor execution
- Design staffing and operating models for project phases
- Provide independent analysis of vendor performance and risks
- Translate budget constraints into QA coverage plans
- Recommend test strategy solutions
- Collaborate with production, development, and QA
- Contribute to retrospectives and process improvements
Reports To: Senior Program Manager
About the Role
We’re looking for a seasoned Project Manager with deep QA expertise to lead and optimize our QA team for a large-scale, high-complexity game project. This role is critical to ensuring the QA teams are aligned, efficient, and delivering high-quality results that meet the evolving needs of AAA development.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day oversight of the QA team, ensuring alignment with project goals, timelines, and quality standards.
- Collaborate with internal QA leads and managers to define and evolve milestone entrance/exit criteria, test acceptance criteria, and coverage expectations.
- Establish and track high-level KPIs to evaluate vendor execution, efficiency, and quality.
- Partner with stakeholders to design the right staffing and operating model for each phase of the project.
- Provide independent analysis of vendor performance, test coverage, and risk areas — not just status updates.
- Translate budget constraints into actionable QA coverage plans (“here’s what we can do at each budget level”).
- Recommend and implement test strategy solutions across functional, regression, compatibility, and exploratory testing.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with production, development, and QA to ensure vendor teams are proactive, not reactive.
- Contribute to retrospectives and process improvements across internal and external QA workflows.
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